# Deaths in February 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

## February 2012
### 1

* Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.
* Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor.
* Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer.
* Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
* Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.
* Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
* Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier.
* Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
* Jannatul Ferdous, 74, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
* André Génovès, 70, French film producer and director.
* Tony Giorgio, 88, Italian-American actor and magician, heart failure.
* Sara González Gómez, 62 or 64, Cuban singer.
* John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
* Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).
* Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.
* Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
* Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author.
* Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
* David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
* Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete.
* Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper.
* Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
* Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
* Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
* Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

### 2

* Paramjit Bahia, 61, Indian-born Canadian field hockey player.
* Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
* Daphne Brooker, 84, British model, costume designer, and professor, bronchopneumonia.
* Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
* Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
* David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
* George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press).
* Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction.
* Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst.
* Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
* John Houlder, 95, British engineer.
* Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
* James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.
* Asko Mäkilä, 67, Finnish footballer

### 3

* Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
* Christopher Asir, 64, Indian bishop, cancer.
* John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
* HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
* Francis Patrick Donovan, 90, Australian academic, lawyer, and diplomat.
* Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
* Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
* Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
* Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor.
* Zalman King, 70, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
* Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
* Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect.
* Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist.
* Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College).
* Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
* Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
* Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

### 4

* István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993).
* Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
* Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
* Václav Dosbaba, 67, Czech painter.
* Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
* George Duncan, 75, Scottish footballer.
* Soledad Duterte, 95, Filipino teacher and activist.
* Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
* Harry F. Franke Jr., 89, American politician.
* Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
* Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter.
* Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche.
* Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
* Livio Minelli, 85, Italian former European welterweight champion boxer.
* Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
* Nicolás Moreno, 88, Mexican landscape painter.
* Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor (The Chronicles of Narnia).
* Sir Alan Reay, 86, British Army officer, Director General Army Medical Services (1981–1984).
* Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
* János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist.
* Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
* Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.
* Pongphan Wongsuwan, 61, Thai football manager (TOT S.C.).

### 5

* José Luis Álvarez, 94, Guatemalan artist.
* Violeta Autumn, 81, Peruvian-born American architect and artist.
* Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
* Royal Cathcart, 85, American football player.
* Colin Churchett, 86, Australian footballer.
* Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction, Ryan's Hope).
* Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model and television presenter, cocaine overdose.
* Al De Lory, 82, American record producer.
* Lady Ganga, 45, American humanitarian, cervical cancer.
* Jef Gilson, 85, French musician.
* Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
* Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
* William D. Houser, 90, American vice admiral (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
* Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
* Lidiya Rasulova, 70, Azerbaijani politician, member of Supreme Soviet, Minister of Social Security (1988-1991) and of Education (1993-1997).
* Peter Kerim, 57, Ugandan military officer.
* Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.
* John Turner Sargent Sr., 87, American publisher.
* Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000).
* Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete.

### 6

* Abdus Sattar Akon, 82-83, Bangladeshi teacher and politician, result of illness.
* Billy Bean, 78, American jazz guitarist.
* Jean Bingen, 91, Belgian papyrologist and epigrapher.
* Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
* Roger Chesneau, 86, French steeplechaser.
* Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
* Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.
* Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra).
* Jim King, 69, British musician (Family).
* Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
* Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer.
* Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
* Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer.
* Erik Reitzel, 70, Danish civil engineer.
* Bob Roesner, 85, American baseball umpire.
* David Rosenhan, 82, American psychologist.
* Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
* Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
* István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player.
* Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, breast cancer.
* David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

### 7

* Sam Aluko, 82, Nigerian economist and scholar.
* Leonard E. Andera, 77, American politician.
* James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
* Knox Chamblin, 76, American pastor and professor.
* Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
* Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
* Ann Dummett, 81, British activist.
* Devy Erlih, 83, French violinist.
* Peter Goddard, 80, New Zealand educationalist.
* Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer.
* Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
* Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
* Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer.
* Robert Maxwell, 90, American songwriter and harpist.

### 8

* Shane Atwell, 41, Barbadian sailor.
* Bill Benson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
* Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, The Great Waldo Pepper).
* Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
* Robert Christie, 69, English cricketer.
* John Cunningham, 72, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
* Alain Danilet, 64, French politician.
* Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician.
* Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 101, French philologist.
* John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
* Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer.
* Robert E. Hecht, 92, American antiquities dealer.
* Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
* Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
* Franca Maï, 52, French actress, cancer.
* Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
* Enrique Moreno, 48, Spanish footballer.
* Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
* Jimmy Sabater, 75, American Latin musician.
* Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
* Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
* Irina Turova, 76, Soviet sprinter.
* Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest.
* Brayim Younisi, 85, Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist and translator.

### 9

* Adam Adamowicz, 43, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
* Robert Baker, 85, American ice hockey player.
* Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
* Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater.
* Susarla Dakshinamurthi, 90, Indian film music director, playback singer, and record producer.
* Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
* O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
* Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
* John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
* Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician.
* Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
* Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
* Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).

### 10

* Ibrahim Al-Faqi, 61, Egyptian-born Canadian neuro-linguistic programming expert, home fire.
* Chuck Baird, 64, American artist.
* Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
* R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
* Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
* John Gage, 73, British art historian.
* Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
* Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
* Ed Harrison, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).
* Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
* Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst.
* Andrey Korotkov, 57, Russian politician, after long illness.
* Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
* Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
* David Anthony Pizzuto, 60, Canadian-born American voice actor (Family Guy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).
* Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suicide by hanging.
* Refuse To Bend, 11, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the National Stakes (2002) and 2,000 Guineas Stakes (2003), myocardial infarction.
* James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
* Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, 88, Argentine racing driver.
* Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

### 11

* Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer.
* Volodymyr Borysovsky, 78, Ukrainian builder, electrical engineer, and politician.
* David Craven, 60, American art historian.
* Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general.
* Guido Fanti, 86, Italian politician.
* Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
* Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), accidental drowning.
* John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).

### 12

* Galal Amer, 59, Egyptian journalist, heart attack.
* Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
* Nicanor de Guzman Jr., 80, Filipino politician, lingering liver and pancreatic illness.
* Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
* Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
* Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
* David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
* Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936).
* John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos), co-founder of Mad magazine.
* David A. Walker, 83, British scientist.
* Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

### 13

* Wendy Albano, 52, American businesswoman, strangled.
* Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
* Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
* Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
* Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure.
* Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
* Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
* Louise Cochrane, 93, American-born British television producer.
* Trevor Davey, 85, New Zealand politician.
* Eamonn Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
* Sophie Desmarets, 89, French actress.
* Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
* Maria Fischer-Slyzh, 89, Ukrainian-Canadian pediatrician and philanthropist.
* Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic.
* David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
* Kushimaumi Keita, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease.
* Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
* Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
* Isaak B. Klejman, 91, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist.
* Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian lieutenant general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
* Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987–1993), respiratory failure.
* Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer.
* Jim O'Brien, 64, Scottish film and television director (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
* Leta Peer, 47, Swiss painter and fine art photographer.
* Sansón, 87, Spanish football player.
* Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
* Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

### 14

* V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
* Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
* Desmond Carroll, 93, English archdeacon.
* Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest.
* Ibragimkhalil Daudov, 51, Russian militant leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, shot.
* Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
* Reinhold Frosch, 76, Austrian luger.
* Gloria Gallardo, 73, American activist.
* Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
* Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
* Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
* Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
* Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion.
* Art Tait, 83, American football player.
* Alfredo Vega, 77, Paraguayan footballer.

### 15

* Tariq al-Dahab, 34-38, Yemeni terrorist, shot.
* Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
* Ray Bailey, 76, Australian politician, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1997–2002).
* Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
* Shannon D. Cramer, 90, American admiral.
* William H. Dabney, 77, American military officer, awarded Navy Cross.
* Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist.
* Jacques Duby, 89, French actor.
* Joki Freund, 85, German jazz saxophonist.
* Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
* Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
* Bibudhendra Mishra, 83, Indian politician.
* Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress, cancer.
* Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
* James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
* Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1998–2002), lung cancer.
* John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

### 16

* Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach.
* Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.
* Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer.
* Mitja Brodar, 91, Slovenian archaeologist.
* Tiko Campbell, 64, American author and architect.
* Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
* Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon, 89, Israeli politician.
* Donald Henry Colless, 89, Australian entomologist.
* Israel "Bo" Curtis, 79, American educator and funeral home insurance agent.
* René Debenne, 97, French cyclist.
* Sir Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
* Jacques Forest, 91, French carcinologist.
* Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
* Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
* Joy Lamason, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
* Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977).
* John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
* Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
* Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
* Geevarghese Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
* Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
* Ronald Rindestu, 69, Norwegian politician.
* John Ritchie, 67, English footballer.
* Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
* Ethel Stark, 95, Canadian violinist and conductor.
* Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
* Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

### 17

* Rodolfo Acevedo, 60, Chilean historian.
* Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
* Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
* Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
* Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
* Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
* Pierre Francisse, 87, Belgian Olympic fencer.
* Danny Halloran, 57, Australian footballer (Carlton).
* Jordan, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes.
* Kurt Lehovec, 93, American physicist.
* Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
* Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer.
* Peter Novick, 77, American historian.
* Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
* Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.

### 18

* Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater.
* Alex Anisi, Papua New Guinean politician.
* Mariam Behruzi, 66-67, Iranian lawyer.
* József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter.
* George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
* João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician.
* Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
* Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano, cancer.
* Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
* Linda Estrella, 89, Fillipina actress.
* M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
* Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease.
* Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor (Doctor Who, The Remains of the Day).
* Miles Jackson-Lipkin, 87, British barrister, Hong Kong High Court judge (1981–1987), social welfare fraudster.
* María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
* Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
* Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
* Roger Miner, 77, American senior federal appellate judge, heart failure.
* Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
* Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs.).
* Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications.

### 19

* Hubert Braun, 72, German Olympic bobsledder.
* Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke.
* Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
* Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
* Avraham Fahn, 95, Israeli professor.
* Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
* Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
* J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
* Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
* Giovanni Lilliu, 97, Italian archeologist.
* Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
* Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
* Dick Smith, 72, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).
* So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
* Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher.
* Stanislovas Stonkus, 80, Lithuanian basketball player.
* Herman G. Tillman Jr., 89, American pilot (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
* Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author.
* Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).

### 20

* Foyez Ahmad, 84, Bangladeshi journalist, writer and cultural activist.
* Clive Baker, 77, English footballer (Halifax Town).
* Raymond Cicci, 82, French footballer
* Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach.
* Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.
* Johnny Ezersky, 89, American basketball player.
* Ra Ganapati, 76, Indian writer.
* Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
* Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian.
* Marcel Gerdil, 84, French sprinter.
* Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
* S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava).
* Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist.
* Ariyil Shukoor, 24, Indian student, stabbed.
* Michael Siegal, 61, British developmental psychologist.
* Adrienne Smith, 78, Australian sport administrator.
* John Steer, 83, British art historian.
* Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002).
* Tamanna Begum, 64, Pakistani actress.
* Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), heart attack.

### 21

* Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
* James Blackett-Ord, 90, British judge and churchman.
* Ajahn Chanda Thawaro, 90, Thai Buddhist monk.
* Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
* H. M. Darmstandler, 89, American Air Force officer.
* Herman Fialkov, 89, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
* Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
* Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
* Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
* Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975), namesake of the Juno Awards.
* Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip.
* Vera Kublanovskaya, 91, Russian mathematician.
* Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
* Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
* John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
* Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), brother of Imelda Marcos, cancer.
* Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist.
* Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
* Eldor Urazbayev, 71, Russian film director.
* Stanisław Wieśniak, 81, Polish Olympic rower.
* John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist.

### 22

* Ali Abolhassani, 56, Iranian spiritual historiograph, heart failure.
* Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf, 78, Indian imam.
* Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
* Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
* Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia.
* Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
* Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness.
* Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
* João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973).
* Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer.
* Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
* Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator.
* Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
* Royal Academy, 25, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile (1990).
* Haycene Ryan, 60, Montserratian cricketer, cancer.
* Ian Robertson, 89, British rear admiral.
* Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack.
* Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack.
* Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger.
* Sukhbir, 86, Indian writer.

### 23

* Tasoltan Basiev, 64, Soviet and Russian engineer.
* Dick Bernard, 94, Scottish lawn bowler.
* Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
* Charlie Collins, 66, Canadian football player, car accident.
* Anne Commire, 72, American playwright.
* William Gay, 70, American author.
* Peter King, 47, English footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Southport).
* Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter.
* Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress.
* William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
* David Sayre, 87, American scientist.
* Marc Soula, 66, French entomologist.
* Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop).
* Jan van Borssum Buisman, 92, Dutch painter.
* Kazimierz Żygulski, 92, Polish sociologist and politician.

### 24

* Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.
* Tony Aiello, 90, American football player.
* Agnes Allen, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
* Bob Badgley, 83, American jazz double-bassist.
* Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
* Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician.
* Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
* Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
* Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
* Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
* Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.
* Eliana Tranchesi, 56, Brazilian chief executive (Daslu).
* Jay Ward, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds).
* Oliver Wrong, 87, British medical academic.

### 25

* Gloria Alcorta, 96, Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.
* Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
* Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).
* Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack.
* Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964).
* Alan Detweiler, 85, Canadian composer, author, and patron of the arts.
* Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997).
* Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
* Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.

### 26

* Ed Brigadier, 62, American actor (Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls, The Jane Austen Book Club).
* Phyllis Simmons Brooks, 85, Canadian educator.
* Richard Carpenter, 82, English television screenwriter.
* Robinson Cavalcanti, 67, Brazilian Anglican bishop, stabbed.
* Paddy Concannon, 93, Irish politician.
* Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach.
* Mohamed Fourati, 80, Tunisian surgeon.
* Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001).
* Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings).
* Hans Christian Korting, 59, German dermatologist.
* Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, 85, Nepalese Buddhist monk.
* Trayvon Martin, 17, American teenager, shot.
* Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player.
* George E. Terwilleger, 71, American politician.
* Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician.
* Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress.
* Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.

### 27

* Ely Bielutin, 86, Russian artist.
* Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player.
* David Bowman, 54, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Rich Brenner, 65, American sports commentator.
* Pedro Azabache Bustamante, 94, Peruvian painter.
* Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist.
* Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003).
* Ma Jiyuan, 91, Chinese military leader.
* Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer.
* Piotr Pawłowski, 86, Polish actor.
* Armand Penverne, 85, French football player.
* Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during World War II, cancer.
* Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
* Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer.

### 28

* Karl Arnold, 71, German weightlifter.
* Frisner Augustin, 63, Haitian Vodou drummer.
* Bai Jing, 28, Chinese actress, stabbed.
* Anna Lou Dehavenon, 85, American anthropologist.
* Terri Dial, 62, American banker, pancreatic cancer.
* Ian Gallahar, 70s, Irish road racing cyclist.
* Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer.
* Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer.
* Fritz Hakl, 80, Austrian actor.
* William Hamilton, 87, American theologian.
* Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowning.
* Antonio Attolini Lack, 80, Mexican architect.
* Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, 43-49, Somali journalist, shot.
* Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian.
* Murray Sargent, 83, Australian cricketer (South Australia, Leicestershire).

### 29

* Roland Bautista, 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire).
* Ertjies Bezuidenhout, 56, South African cyclist.
* Prudence Burns Burrell, 95, American nurse.
* Gerald Caravelli, 68, American bridge player.
* Dennis Chinnery, 84, British actor (Doctor Who).
* Woody Farmer, 76, American wrestler, cancer.
* Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman.
* Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.
* Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer.
* Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Blackhawk), kidney failure.
* Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack.
* P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society.
* Vasilis Tsivilikas, 70, Greek comic actor, heart attack.